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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the Economist , Winnipeg Free Press , and Financial Times • One of Indigo's Top 100 Books of 2024 From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century, that bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are underpinned not by one dictator, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, surveillance technologies, and professional propagandists, all of which operate across multiple regimes, from China to Russia to Iran. Corrupt companies in one country do business with corrupt companies in another. The police in one country can arm and train the police in another, and propagandists share resources and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America. International condemnation and economic sanctions cannot move the autocrats. Even popular opposition movements, from Venezuela to Hong Kong to Moscow, don't stand a chance. The members of Autocracy, Inc, aren't linked by a unifying ideology, like communism, but rather a common desire for power, wealth, and impunity. In this urgent treatise, which evokes George Kennan's essay calling for "containment" of the Soviet Union, Anne Applebaum calls for the democracies to fundamentally reorient their policies to fight a new kind of threat. |
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AN INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A HILL TIMES BEST BOOK 2024 Award-winning author and broadcast journalist Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years—including democracy , freedom and truth— and asks whether we can reclaim their value. As co-host of CBC Radio's As It Happens , Carol Off spent a decade and a half talking to people in the news five nights a week. On top of her stellar writing and reporting career, those 25,000 interviews have given her a unique vantage point on the crucial subject at the heart of her new book—how, in these polarizing years, words that used to define civil society and social justice are being put to work for a completely different political agenda. Or they are being bleached of their meaning as the values they represent are mocked and distorted. As Off writes, “If our language doesn’t have a means to express an idea, then the idea itself is gone—even the range of thought is diminished.” And, as she argues, that’s a dangerous loss. In six, wide-ranging chapters, Off explores the mutating meanings and the changing political impact of her six chosen words—freedom, democracy, truth, woke, choice and taxes—unpacking the forces, from right and left, that have altered them beyond recognition. She also shows what happens when we lose our shared political vocabulary: we stop being able to hear each other, let alone speak with each other in meaningful ways. This means we stop being able to reckon with the complexity of the crises we face, leaving us prey to conspiracy theories, autocrats and the machinations of greed. At a Loss for Words is both an elegy and a call to arms. |
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Comment et pourquoi les systèmes politiques chutent-ils ? L'analyse à la fois historique et contemporaine du plus passionnant des chercheurs américains. Un livre essentiel pour comprendre l'instabilité du monde actuel. Les sociétés démocratiques sont aujourd'hui mises à mal, contestées et parfois réprouvées par des citoyens qui ont toujours eu le droit de vote. Elles sont jugées de plus en plus inégalitaires et génèrent toujours plus de frustrations, de colère, de ressentiment. Alors, à quel moment un système qui nous paraissait indestructible touche-t-il à sa fin ? Comment les turbulences politiques à même de conduire à une guerre civile s'expliquent-elles ? Pourquoi les dirigeants d'une société peuvent-ils subitement perdre pied ? Qu'est-ce qui, en un mot, mène à l'effondrement ? À ces questions de plus en plus saillantes et urgentes, Peter Turchin offre des analyses et des réponses proprement révolutionnaires : les données à partir desquelles il travaille retracent pas moins de 10 000 ans d'histoire et rassemblent plus de 700 sociétés, de l'Égypte ancienne à l'Amérique contemporaine, en passant par la Chine impériale et la France médiévale. Sa méthode combine le court terme de l'actualité à la profondeur de l'histoire humaine avec, quelles que soient les époques, la rigueur d'un scientifique de la complexité. Les leçons qu'il invite à tirer sont claires. Lorsque la balance du pouvoir entre peuple et élites penche trop sévèrement en faveur de ces dernières, la chute s'avère imminente. Les riches s'enrichissent aux dépens de pauvres qui s'appauvrissent, et à un sommet surpeuplé répondent des masses toujours plus fiévreuses. Ainsi va la mécanique de la surproduction d'élites, premier rouage de l'effondrement social. Ouvrage essentiel pour comprendre en profondeur les temps troublés que nous vivons, Le Chaos qui vient indique également la voie vers un avenir plus stable. Par l'autopsie des crises du passé, Turchin avance un possible remède à nos maux futurs. " Le meilleur essai de l'année. " The Times " Turchin analyse avec lucidité l'instabilité des systèmes, même les plus solides. " New York Times " Le grand récit collectif des échecs et des réussites de l'Humanité. " The Observer Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Peggy Sastre. |
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Corruption, proxénétisme, duels d’experts médico-légaux et nouveaux témoins… Les derniers rebondissements d’une affaire stupéfiante ! Le 10 novembre 1969, le sergent-détective Louis-Georges Dupont est retrouvé mort dans sa voiture de service, cinq jours après sa disparition. Au terme d’une enquête expéditive, ses collègues concluent au suicide et le dossier est clos… Pourtant, depuis 50 ans, l’affaire refait constamment surface, car elle recèle un nombre incalculable de preuves égarées, d’analyses tronquées et d’incohérences, relevées par la famille, les médias et divers témoins. Dans les années 1960, la ville de Trois-Rivières est rongée par le jeu et la prostitution, sans parler des allégations de corruption qui pèsent sur les plus hautes autorités. La situation est jugée si délétère qu’elle conduit, en 1969, à la première commission d’enquête sur la police au Québec. Dupont y participe et décède à peine deux mois plus tard, ce qui fragilise la thèse du suicide. Était-il devenu gênant? Pourquoi n’a-t-on pas suivi certaines pistes malgré les multiples indices? Dans cet ouvrage soigneusement documenté, Stéphane Berthomet revient sur les éléments clés de cette histoire. Au fil de ses rencontres, il démontre à quel point les faits s’opposent à la version officielle, soulève des questions troublantes et dévoile ses plus récentes découvertes. |
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Learn how to fight against the disinformation campaigns imperiling American democracy in this empowering, pocket-sized guide from the author of How to Talk to a Science Denier. INSIDE THE WAR ON TRUTH: Explore the history of how disinformation has been weaponized to manipulate society. The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn’t come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of 70 years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation , Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our society. Drawing on his 20 years of experience as a scholar of science denial, McIntyre explains how autocrats wield disinformation to manipulate a populace and deny obvious realities; why the best way to combat disinformation is to disrupt its spread; and most importantly, how we can win the war on truth. McIntyre takes readers through the history of strategic denialism to show how we arrived at this precarious political moment and identifies the creators, amplifiers, and believers of disinformation. Along the way, he also demonstrates how today’s “reality denial” follows the same flawed blueprint of the “five steps of science denial” used by climate deniers and anti-vaxxers; shows how Trump has emulated disinformation tactics created by Russian and Soviet intelligence dating back to the 1920s; provides interviews with leading experts on information warfare, counterterrorism, and political extremism; and spells out the need for algorithmic transparency from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. On Disinformation lays out ten everyday practical steps that we can take as ordinary citizens—from resisting polarization to pressuring our Congresspeople to regulate social media—as well as the important steps our government (if we elect the right leaders) must take. Compact, easy-to-read (and then pass on to a friend), and never more urgent, On Disinformation does nothing less than empower us with the tools and knowledge needed to save our republic from autocracy before it is too late. |
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Les gens pensent que pour modifier le cours de leur vie, ils doivent faire de grands changements. Dans ce livre, ils découvriront que les plus petits changements couplés à une bonne connaissance de la psychologie et des neurosciences peuvent avoir un effet révolutionnaire sur leur existence et leurs relations. |
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NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS 'Killer in the Kremlin traces Putin's bloody career... a life littered with corpses' THE TIMES 'An extraordinarily prescient and fascinating book' NIHAL ARTHANAYAKE A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims. In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history - Russia's invasion of Ukraine - this book shines a light on Putin's rule and poses urgent questions about how the world must respond Praise for John Sweeney: 'The evil dwarf-president is merely another one of those damn fool misfits like that scrappy little Stalin, or wee little Lenin.' BORIS NEMTSOV, ASSASSINATED RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER ‘Vivid, harrowing and urgently personal’ DAILY MAIL 'No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful people' VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE ‘This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president’ THE TIMES 'Putin is the main war criminal of the 21st century' IRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINE’S PROSECUTOR-GENERAL 'Words have power, Putin is afraid of the truth, I have always said that' ALEXEI NAVALNY, LEADER OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION 'A dictator, bent on rebuilding an empire, will never erase the people's love for liberty. This man cannot remain in power' JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 'Examines the sins of the Russian leader's regime' iPAPER Instant Sunday Times bestseller, March 2023 |
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Depuis le milieu des années 1990, l’Amérique semble condamnée à aller de crise en crise et d’un effondrement à l’autre, chaque réponse trouvée ne faisant qu’engendrer de nouveaux déséquilibres, à la faveur d’une spectaculaire fuite en avant. Et pourtant, ceux qui misent sur la fin prochaine de l’empire américain se trompent. Ce n’est pas à une chute que nous assistons, ni même à un déclin, mais à une métamorphose. L’empire américain change de nature sous nos yeux, comme un corps secoué de convulsions grotesques qui le font passer d’un état à un autre. C’est une autre dimension de son « être » qui voit le jour ou renaît sous une forme inédite. Grâce au pouvoir des innombrables réseaux qu’il déploie sur le monde comme autant de filets (ou de webs), qui l’enserrent et le retiennent, le nourrissent et le traversent, l’empire est en train d’œuvrer à sa propre invisibilisation. Il a créé les moyens inédits de s’établir au cœur de notre existence, au plus près de notre pensée et de notre imagination, jusqu’à ne plus devoir être vu. Si bien que le monde est aujourd’hui en train d’« absorber » l’Amérique, de la métaboliser, comme on le dit d’un corps qui assimile un autre corps et en retient les qualités. |
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Neoliberalism – free market capitalism and the view that “freedom” is society’s highest value – has become embedded in the fabric of Canadian government and society. Neoliberal theorists, marginalized for decades after the Second World War, saw their ideas embraced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, who implemented their policies in the 1980s and 90s. Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – reduce public services in favour of privatization, cut taxes to benefit business, demonize government deficits, limit government regulation and enable corporations to self-regulate – continue to be promoted by its corporate champions and think tank advocates. Yet the experiences of the last decade in Canada and internationally have demonstrated the emptiness of neoliberalism and demonstrated the crucial role government plays in society. Challenges – from financial market crises to the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change – underscore how vital government action can be in our lives. Alex Himelfarb offers proposals about how Canada can break free from this destructive set of ideas about how the world should work. |
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Mein Kampf written by Adolf Hitler is known as one of the most dangerous books in history. It is a fundamental exposition of Nazi ideology, which caused deaths of milions of people. The publisher would like to inform, that propaganda of any totalitarianism, such as Nazism, Fascism and Communism is not his target and this book should be only perceived as a historical source. Every man wanting to understand the complexity of the World War II should be acquainted with this position.  |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” ( Vox ) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” ( The New York Times ) “Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.”—Masha Gessen The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too. As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco  neighbors and friends—until she started questioning  whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected. In Morning After the Revolution , Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life. Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists. |
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In this brilliant and timely new book, former Bank of Canada Governor and bestselling author Mark Carney charts an ambitious and urgent path forward for Canada and the world as we collectively face a multitude of existential threats to our long-standing democratic traditions. We are at a hinge moment in history—reminiscent of what the Allies faced at the end of 1941, when Winston Churchill was in Ottawa meeting with Mackenzie King—an age of uncertainty and rising perils that is reshaping global political, economic, technological, and social orders, and overturning our day-to-day lives. The good news is that, just as Churchill, King, and FDR would eventually swing what Churchill termed the “Hinge of Fate” towards freedom and prosperity, we too have agency to build an even better Canada. The series of crises that have plagued us are not bolts from the blue but rather the product of a gathering storm whipped up by the structural drivers of inequality, the forces of economic volatility, the erosion of democratic principles, the scourge of autocratic governing, and our growing confusion between value and values. Over the past quarter century, the combination of crises, globalisation, and technological change have meant that real wages and quality of life in advanced economies have been falling at unprecedented rates. The consequence is a deep loss of trust in institutions at precisely the time when they will be needed most. Into this storm come two of the most profound—and rapid—economic and social transformations in human history: the net zero revolution and the AI transformation. Each will disrupt almost every industry and change many aspects of our lives. At this hinge moment, we have the choice of whether the impact of the transitions on people will be positive and empowering, or brutal and disenfranchising. For Carney—one of our most astute economic minds and passionate advocates for a more just world and healthy planet—the solutions to our problems in Canada and beyond are complex, but our most important goals are straightforward and fundamental. The results that matter to people—jobs, investment, growth, peace of mind, trust in institutions—should be at the centre of our efforts. Policies should be subject to a simple test: Will they help or hinder progress for people? Our responses could not be more vital. As Canadians, we’ve solved big problems in the past. With The Hinge , Mark Carney shows us how we can solve bigger ones in the future. It is time to build, to build things that last. Not as a government, but as a people. |
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From the creator of the wildly popular blog Wait But Why, a fun and fascinating deep dive into what the hell is going on in our strange, unprecedented modern times. Between 2013 and 2016, Tim Urban became one of the world’s most popular bloggers, writing dozens of viral, long-form articles about everything from AI to colonizing Mars to procrastination. Then, he turned his attention to a new topic: the society around him. Why was everything such a mess? Why was everyone acting like such a baby? When did things get so tribal? Why do humans do this stuff? This massive topic sent Tim tumbling down his deepest rabbit hole yet, through mountains of history, evolutionary psychology, political theory, neuroscience, and modern-day political movements, as he tried to figure out the answer to a simple question: What’s our problem? Six years later, he emerged from the hole holding this book. What’s Our Problem? is a deep and expansive analysis of our modern times, in the classic style of Wait But Why, packed with original concepts, sticky metaphors, and 300 drawings. The book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today’s complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis, which is all about what we think, the book introduces a vertical axis that explores how we think, as individuals and as groups. Readers will find themselves on a delightful and fascinating journey that will ultimately change the way they see the world around them. Anyway he wanted to say a lot more about all of this but there was a word limit on this book description so just go read the book. |
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Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return." In 1948, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the first Arab-Israeli War. More than seventy years later, most of their houses are long gone, but millions of their descendants are still registered as refugees, with many living in refugee camps. This group—unlike countless others that were displaced in the aftermath of World War II and other conflicts—has remained unsettled, demanding to settle in the state of Israel. Their belief in a "right of return" is one of the largest obstacles to successful diplomacy and lasting peace in the region. In The War of Return , Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf—both liberal Israelis supportive of a two-state solution—reveal the origins of the idea of a right of return, and explain how UNRWA - the very agency charged with finding a solution for the refugees - gave in to Palestinian, Arab and international political pressure to create a permanent “refugee” problem. They argue that this Palestinian demand for a “right of return” has no legal or moral basis and make an impassioned plea for the US, the UN, and the EU to recognize this fact, for the good of Israelis and Palestinians alike. A runaway bestseller in Israel, the first English translation of The War of Return is certain to spark lively debate throughout America and abroad. |
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"A much needed wake-up call that China assumes that it is open season on Americans." —Victor Davis Hanson "There is a Red Storm rising in the East—and America is already under assault from the Chinese Communist Party." —Lou Dobbs “THE EAST IS RISING AND THE WEST IS DECLINING” —Xi Jinping, 2020 Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission and the president of the People's Republic of China, wants to shape the world in China’s image, and in his conception of the world there is no place for the United States or even the current international order. Noted China analyst Gordon G. Chang warns that Xi Jinping believes he must destroy America to accomplish his objectives. And that Xi already has a plan to do it! Xi reveres Mao and is marching China back to Maoism. He is reinstituting totalitarian social controls, demanding absolute political obedience from everyone, and cutting foreign links. Closing China off from the world is an essential element of his plan to save the communist system. His isolationism and xenophobia evoke policies from the earliest years of the People’s Republic and during the two millennia of imperial rule. And Xi can’t stop talking about war. More significantly, he is implementing the largest military buildup since the Second World War, he is trying to sanctions-proof the Chinese regime, he is stockpiling grain and other commodities, he is surveying America for strikes and sabotage, he is mobilizing China’s civilians for battle, and he is purging China’s military of officers opposed to going to war. While America’s elite thinks their country is at peace, China’s regime is waging its brand of war. The Chinese regime has deliberately killed Americans in great numbers this century—with disease and in other ways—and it has a plan to destroy America. The communist party-state in fact believes it must eliminate the United States to ensure its own survival. And to accomplish its goals, the regime is now fast mobilizing to go to war. China is preparing to plunge the world into conflict. In PLAN RED: China's Project to Destroy America, Chang argues: China’s campaign against America excludes nothing and uses every point of contact with American society to destroy it. China has been attacking America from inside America! China’s penetration of American society has been so thorough that the Communist Party has been able to kill Americans with impunity Xi turned an in-country epidemic into a once-in-a-century pandemic. This is the first time in history that one nation has attacked all the others. The Communist Party is using all its resources to support criminal activity in America, and Americans are dying as a direct result of those activities. Xi Jinping’s China is preparing to go to war. Not just “unrestricted war” or political war but “hot war” or “kinetic war,” in other words, war as Americans see it in the movies. And China’s regime is planning to kill Americans in even greater numbers. It is marching the country to war. Americans, in the triumphalist mood after the fall of the Soviet Union, thought they should establish contacts with China. Now, the Chinese regime uses every point of contact against America, and at the moment the regime is overwhelming American institutions. The FBI is being overwhelmed, local law enforcement is being overwhelmed, governments at all levels are being overwhelmed, and private organizations are being overwhelmed. After more than three decades of intensive “engagement,” it is clear Washington’s generous approach has failed. America has not changed China, as everyone now realizes; China has changed America. Chang believes it is time to take a page from Ronald Reagan’s playbook and work to bring down the enemy: the Communist Party. The Communist Party often talks about “win-win” solutions, but as its actions make clear, it believes there can be only one survivor, either the People’s Republic of China or the United... |
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In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram ). Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only about our current location or where we are going but about the world in general. And yet, when it comes to geo-politics, much of what we are told is generated by analysts and other experts who have neglected to refer to a map of the place in question. All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. In “one of the best books about geopolitics” ( The Evening Standard ), now updated to include 2016 geopolitical developments, journalist Tim Marshall examines Russia, China, the US, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Japan, Korea, and Greenland and the Arctic—their weather, seas, mountains, rivers, deserts, and borders—to provide a context often missing from our political reportage: how the physical characteristics of these countries affect their strengths and vulnerabilities and the decisions made by their leaders. Offering “a fresh way of looking at maps” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Marshall explains the complex geo-political strategies that shape the globe. Why is Putin so obsessed with Crimea? Why was the US destined to become a global superpower? Why does China’s power base continue to expand? Why is Tibet destined to lose its autonomy? Why will Europe never be united? The answers are geographical. “In an ever more complex, chaotic, and interlinked world, Prisoners of Geography is a concise and useful primer on geopolitics” ( Newsweek ) and a critical guide to one of the major determining factors in world affairs. |
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#1 New York Times Bestseller A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today’s world, written by one of the most admired public servants in American history, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state A Fascist, observed Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have.”  The twentieth century was defined by the clash between democracy and Fascism, a struggle that created uncertainty about the survival of human freedom and left millions dead. Given the horrors of that experience, one might expect the world to reject the spiritual successors to Hitler and Mussolini should they arise in our era. Fascism: A Warning is drawn from Madeleine Albright's experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to question that assumption. Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. The United States, which historically championed the free world, is led by a president who exacerbates division and heaps scorn on democratic institutions. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s. Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past. |
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with a new afterword "An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is one of the bright lights that could lead us out of the darkness." – Joe Rogan "Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues" – Jordan B. Peterson Are we living through the great derangement of our times? In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of 'woke' culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of 'wokeness', the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive. One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray's penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament. |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy seemed final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. This faith was misplaced. Authoritarianism returned to Russia, as Vladimir Putin found fascist ideas that could be used to justify rule by the wealthy. In the 2010s, it has spread from east to west, aided by Russian warfare in Ukraine and cyberwar in Europe and the United States.  Russia found allies among nationalists, oligarchs, and radicals everywhere, and its drive to dissolve Western institutions, states, and values found resonance within the West itself.  The rise of populism, the British vote against the EU, and the election of Donald Trump were all Russian goals, but their achievement reveals the vulnerability of Western societies. In this forceful and unsparing work of contemporary history, based on vast research as well as personal reporting, Snyder goes beyond the headlines to expose the true nature of the threat to democracy and law. To understand the challenge is to see, and perhaps renew, the fundamental political virtues offered by tradition and demanded by the future. By revealing the stark choices before us--between equality or oligarchy, individuality or totality, truth and falsehood--Snyder restores our understanding of the basis of our way of life, offering a way forward in a time of terrible uncertainty. |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like “A clarion call against the American oligarchs . . . powerful.”— The Guardian It’s OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country’s failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is fueled by uncontrolled greed and rigidly committed to prioritizing corporate profits over the needs of ordinary Americans. Sanders argues that unfettered capitalism is to blame for an unprecedented level of income and wealth inequality, is undermining our democracy, and is destroying our planet. How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super rich to buy politicians and swing elections? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? Sanders believes that, in the face of these overwhelming challenges, the American people must ask tough questions about the systems that have failed us and demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins. It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision that extends beyond the promises of past campaigns to reveal what would be possible if the political revolution took place, if we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and if we would work to create a society that provides a decent standard of living for all. This isn’t some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it. |
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“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” — The New Statesman From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it. The Myth of American Idealism offers a timely and comprehensive introduction to the incisive critiques of U.S. power that have made Noam Chomsky a “global phenomenon,” one of the most widely known public intellectuals of all time.  Surveying the history of U.S. military and economic activity around the world, Chomsky and his co-author Nathan J. Robinson vividly trace the way the American pursuit of global domination has wrought havoc in country after country – without, ironically, making Americans any safer. And they explore how dominant elites in the United States have pushed self-serving myths about this country’s commitment to “spreading democracy,” while pursuing a reckless foreign policy that served the interest of few and endangered all too many. Chomsky and Robinson range across the globe, offering penetrating accounts of Washington’s relationship with the Global South, its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan –all justified with noble stories about humanitarian missions and the benevolent intentions of American policy makers. The same kinds of myths that have led to repeated disastrous wars, they argue, are now driving us closer to wars with Russia and China that imperil humanity’s future. Examining nuclear proliferation and climate change, they show how U.S. policies are continuing to exacerbate global threats. For well over half a century, Noam Chomsky has committed himself to exposing governing ideologies and criticizing his country’s unchecked use of military power. At once thorough and devastating, urgent and provocative, The Myth of American Idealism offers a highly readable entry to the conclusions he has come to after a lifetime of thought and activism. |
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‘An urgent manifesto for collective healing.’ David Lammy MP This landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become. Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating examples, Jon Yates demonstrates the ways in which our societies have become disconnected, so that most of us spend less and less time with people who are different — as defined by age, race, or class, earning power or education. By answering a series of surprising questions, Yates reveals a set of truths that will change the way you think about yourself and those around you. What unites the England football team, the iPod and Singapore? How did a city that funded its schools the least become the best place to grow up poor? How did Silicon Valley come from nowhere to dominate the tech industry? How did a village of Italian-Americans become incredibly healthy while smoking cigars, drinking red wine and never exercising? And why is talking to our friends about politics the worst thing we can do for our democracy? Fractured is ultimately an optimistic book, showing convincingly how great people are when they're united in diversity. It argues that the pandemic has created an unprecedented opportunity for us to come together. So we must forge a new ‘Common Life’ – a set of shared practises and institutions — that can strengthen the glue that bonds our societies, in all their diversity. For the health of our democracy, our society, and our economy, the time to act is now. Reviews ‘Yates brings together some remarkable stories to help us think about a Common Life. Offers practical and provocative ideas.’ Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury ‘Perceptive and timely … not only diagnoses our societal ills, but offers an easily digestible prescription. I finished this book with my optimism restored, and you will too.’ Iain Dale, author of Why Can't We All Just Get Along ‘Yates is the British heir to the great US sociologist Robert Putnam; his book should be our Bowling Alone, a text that everyone in politics should be reading and digesting.’ James Kirkup, The Spectator ‘Yates’s thoroughly researched book lends the subject renewed urgency by showing how rifts in society may be undermining our health, democracy and security.’ New Statesman ‘Fractured marshals evidence that societal segregation is imposing significant costs. … Mr Yates is doing his bit [to solve that] … Intriguing ideas.’ The Economist ‘Deeply wise, meditative, timely and practical. The book fizzles and crackles along and in no time at all you will be at the end, reading about 32 ways to improve your, and everyone else’s lives. Act on #32 and buy this book, right now.’ Sir Anthony Seldon ‘This is the post-pandemic manifesto we need. Vividly written, with a clear diagnosis and specific proposals for overcoming our ills, it is also a challenge to the intellectual status quo.’ David Goodhart, author of Head Hand Heart ‘Fractured is a very welcome source of stories, insights and practical proposals. If you want to really think about the issue of division, this is a book for you.’ Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation ‘A beautiful and wise book.’ Remi Adekoya |
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Est-ce que la politique québécoise demeure un monde d’hommes ? Ou bien est-ce que les femmes, de plus en plus nombreuses à l’Assemblée nationale, y ont enfin trouvé leur place ? Qu’est-ce que les femmes politiques ont à dire sur le sujet ? La journaliste Jocelyne Richer a cherché à obtenir des réponses à ces questions en offrant une tribune à des dizaines d’élues et d’ex-élues. Sans filtre et loin des lignes de presse, elles ont accepté de partager leur vécu de femmes dans un univers qu’elles décrivent souvent comme étant conçu par des hommes, pour des hommes. Encore aujourd’hui, combien d’élues se sentent exclues des lieux de pouvoir, combien ont l’impression que leur compétence et leur crédibilité sont constamment remises en question ? Combien sont persuadées qu’elles n’ont pas droit à l’erreur et qu’elles seront toujours traitées plus durement que leurs collègues masculins ? Leur malaise devait être nommé, leur parole libérée.  Plus qu’un simple état des lieux, l’ouvrage explore le rapport ambigu des femmes au pouvoir, offrant une réflexion sur la condition féminine dans l’arène politique. |
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Comprendre ce qui nous arrive, ce qui nous est arrivé... Tel est l'enjeu de ce livre. Avec les outils des sciences sociales et de celles de la psyché, le sociologue Marc Joly, spécialiste de la sociologie du pouvoir et de la violence morale, décrypte avec efficacité la crise démocratique que nous vivons à partir d'un cas, celui du président Macron. À la suite de la dissolution de l'Assemblée nationale, le 9 juin 2024, nombre de commentaires ont fleuri sur la " folie " d'Emmanuel Macron, " artisan du chaos ". Le ressentir et le dire est une chose ; analyser en quoi consiste précisément cette pathologie au pouvoir en est une autre. C'est tout l'enjeu du patient travail de Marc Joly. Tenant d'une véritable articulation de la sociologie avec la psychanalyse, prolongeant une vaste enquête consacrée à la catégorie de " perversion narcissique ", il dévoile ce qui est effectivement en jeu : une folie narcissique que colmate une perversité accomplie et qui, en conséquence, rejaillit sur tout un peuple. Pour mettre des mots (et du savoir) sur le décervelage que provoque la personnalité d'un président usant sans la moindre considération éthique de toutes les prérogatives que lui offre la Constitution de 1958, l'auteur perce à jour les différentes dynamiques et relations sociales à l'œuvre : crise de la violence symbolique ; " folie à deux " ; masculinité toxique et capitalisme prédateur ; fantasme monarchique de la Ve République. |
